March 19, 2010 @ 3:19 pm by admin
4 Comments »I’ve started preliminary development of Manga+Press 2.7, more as a means of playing with the custom post type features in WordPress 3.0. One thing I will say is this: with WordPress 3.0, Manga+Press will become exactly what I had originally wanted it to be when I first had the concept two years ago. The custom taxonomy feature is exactly what I am going to need to make Manga+Press support multiple comics — which was originally what Manga+Press was supposed to do. Somehow, I could never get that feature to work properly.
The problem is Manga+Press is going to have to be re-written entirely for 3.0, and I have to figure out a way of maintaining some backwards compatibility.
/Update: March 19th, 3:17pm
Yes, Manga+Press 2.7 will definitely have to be rewritten for WordPress 3.0. The custom post types and taxonomies are going to play a powerful role in 2.7, and now that I’m thinking about it, custom post types will play a part in the companion plug-in called CharacterWiki. Or, CharacterWiki may become a part of Manga+Press 2.7.
Something else I’m going to have consider are upgrade paths. How do I maintain backwards compatibility for users who are upgrading from older versions of Manga+Press?
I recently found out about your plug-in. I’m looking forward to the next version. Please correct me if I’m wrong but currently it only supports one comic title? like what if I have superman and batman series, will this still work?
Right now, Manga+Press only supports one title. You can arrange multiple series by category but they will still run together. The next version will use custom taxonomies and include support for multiple series.
Umm, I’m not sure if I understood it correctly. Do you have a demo site for this?
Thank you
No. At the moment, 2.7 is still in development. It isn’t anywhere near demo stage.